Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film, all of them poor. The one CBS experiment will be Monday night's Studio One Summer Theater, a sort of summer-stock version of the regular Studio One, returning live shows with new acting and directing talent. Low-key Comic Peter Lind Hayes will pinch-hit for Godfrey on Talent Scouts, and last summer's hot-pop Baritone Vic ("Da Moan") Damone returns with his caramel-whip tunes for a live hour in Godfrey's Wednesday-night spot. Fred Waring replaces Garry Moore's morning show; more Ford Theater reruns will fill...
...river entrance to the Pentagon, Four-Star General Curtis LeMay, 50, hard-boiled boss of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, rolled his ever-present panatela around in his mouth, fingered the new mustache he had grown in his recent big-game hunt in Africa with Arthur Godfrey, and mulled the reasons for this sudden command appearance before the top Pentagon brass. The scuttlebutt had told: he was to be offered the job of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Curt LeMay took three days to think over the idea. Last week he reappeared at the Pentagon -this...
Interviewed by a New York World-Telegram and Sunman, plain-spoken Actor Paul (A Hole in the Head) Douglas was quoted as having said: "Now there will always be an audience of slobs for Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan-the slobs who like to be patronized by the kindly big shot." Douglas' corrected version: "What I said was, there will always be an audience for slobs like Arthur Godfrey." On a quick visit to Rome, TV Impresario Sullivan, according to a CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario...
Between commercials, the airline and travel-agency plugs and the ejaculations of the transmitter, Godfrey occasionally described an average day. Viewers could look at a map of Africa on their TV screens as he spoke: "Started out into the bush just after daylight. After buffaloes-more dangerous, some say, than elephants. I stalked one by crawling on my belly. LIFE shot it so I'll be able to show you that. Now I'm back at the main base-you got that...
Love to Everyone. Godfrey was impressed with the jungle sounds. "Beautiful as an orchestra," he said-but he was also concerned about the noise he was making back home. "Nothing worse than listening to a lot of chatter on the air if you can't make out what I'm saying." He was right. TV Critic John Crosby said he sounded like "Gerald McBoing Boing doing a rock-'n'-roll number with a trio called The Three Sunspots," and what Godfrey didn't know was that back home the studio audience was walking...